The Portland daily press., 1887-08-08
NEW ADvERTIsEmENTs.
BLANKET-OLOGY.

iiAiia(iON,
And where Free St. slyly
seeks to sidle into it sideways,
Right there ON that corner,
is the large, irregular shaped
show-window of the isss
STAPLES DRY GooDs STORE.
Persons looking into that
corner window to-day will dis
cover unmistakable signs of
Midsummer lunacy.
Cords, solid cords. of warm,
woody, winter Blankets.
In plain sight of the swelter-
ing, sweaty, sticky sufferers,
who blister in the blazing
August sunshine.
Blankets in August .
As out Of place as blue poker chips in the
Yes, Blankets in August,
and for sale too.
We bought last spring and
early this summer vast masses
of blankets. We bought them
of men desperate to get rid Of
them at any price. i ~
At time when prices had
as many ups and downs as a
hotel elevator boy.
Blanket dam had burst somewhere, on the
headwaters OF woody river, and hoodedu with
Biankets.) IN $3.50
We bought them for next
winters trade, and don't care
a-last-year's- bird-nest whether
we sell a single pair before that
time.
But a whim or freak says
TRY EN- now; bait the people
with Blankets at 20 per cent.
discount, and see what they
will do about it.
So here they are,, right in
your sight.
(And we wonder If you have our contempt
for the sayings of that conceited old blunder-
head, Ben franklin, who said ''never buy
thing You don't want, because it is cheap.")
(As If he himself didn't hang the dusty rafters
OF his mental garrett full of crochety rubbish,
cheap, mouldy and useless.)
One pile of these Blankets,
white and colored, you will see
are marked rs cents pair.
And we'll just leave it with
you to say whether they are
cheap or not. ~
Next pile are "Snowbalr'
Blankets, SO called because
they GROW in favor as fast as a
~..li grows by rolling on
the snow.
They are white, heavy, hon.
est and big. Yes, almost as big
as the lie the Boss-town Sum
day newspaper tells about its
circulation.
Price now S2.oo a pair.
Price next autumn $3.50 a
pair. ..s
The next neighbor lot are
Gray Blankets, weighing 6 lbs.
to the pair-a noble blanket.
Price now $500 a pair.
Price next Fall $3.50 a pair.
IAN opportunity as rare and as important to
neutrality-suspicious. dry goods clerk in the
remnant department) ~ ~ ~,
Then follows a two-case lot
of Winthrop White Blankets,
broad, long and thick.
Price this week $2.5 a pair.
{, Next Fall our price will be
$500; no less. ee. - y1e
GLOSSY and fluffy" comes
next A part case of Newport
Blankets left over. from last
season. We opened them last
November at $500, later we
marked them down to $3.50.
You may have. what there are
left of them for $500 a pair.
os Ghsy Are BIZ to the mine judi
outIcrowding or -hcking)
Nextly, perts up a case of
Colored Blankets, Gray, s lbs.
weight to the pair, 81 inches
wide, and long enough to blan-
ket a six-footer, toes and nose,
and bring a corner up around,
making a temporary night-cap
for his bald head.
This is $500 Blanket.
= You get them this week for
$500 pair.
Lots of other lots, but news
paper space costs too much to
advertise them.
ouch. bargains IN Blankets
we have never seen, although
the Blanket business is as
familiar to us as whisky to a
Kentucky Democrat.
(we'd locate 1t nearer home IL we dared.)
We have punched together
this batch of Blanket bargains
for your benefit, not for ours,
tor we are not eager to sell
them before Fall.